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we have black people and latino people living in inner city abandoned communities because people movedway. so you have places like detroit where almost abandoned in terms of the people who are moving and fleeing away from detroit. so race completely controls our settlement patterns as a nation. education. it used to be that education was the pride of the united states. and it was certainly the pride of many states like california. i was recently talking to someone who was a leader of a state, and we were talking about poverty. and as he listened to safety net programs for the poor, he mentioned public schools. it really caught me. i said, public schools, that's become a safety net program? i thought public schools were for everybody. but as they have become associated with people who are poor and of color, we are abandoning the public school education. that is about race. and we have taken men who are important for community, and we've created basically a legacy of absence in communities by pulling the men out and putting them in prison. in numbers that are unprecedented. our rate in t
we have black people and latino people living in inner city abandoned communities because people movedway. so you have places like detroit where almost abandoned in terms of the people who are moving and fleeing away from detroit. so race completely controls our settlement patterns as a nation. education. it used to be that education was the pride of the united states. and it was certainly the pride of many states like california. i was recently talking to someone who was a leader of a state,...
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people with disabilities, people who are handicapped, and people who don't have a place to rest. well i will say -- we know -- they carry no cash. this is not working because we have seen so many homeless people without a bed, overnight. thank you so much. i look forward to working together to resolve these issues as soon as possible. >> thank you. >> hello, supervisors. i am tony frazier. first, i want to thank l.j. and cab street. people are angry out there. they really are. they want shelter. they want a place, bad. we have been in shelters and done outreach. i will say this. it was a guy who came in last week. he was at next door. he had a cap bed. he told us that he was rejected because he went to the general hospital for one day, and he came back and they said he could not get a bed. and somebody from next door tried to sell him one of those monitors. they were holding the bed back for their friends. i am out of fear. [applause] -- out of here. [applause] >> i am the director of shelters, and a few things i would like to say, there is an increase in disability in the shelte
people with disabilities, people who are handicapped, and people who don't have a place to rest. well i will say -- we know -- they carry no cash. this is not working because we have seen so many homeless people without a bed, overnight. thank you so much. i look forward to working together to resolve these issues as soon as possible. >> thank you. >> hello, supervisors. i am tony frazier. first, i want to thank l.j. and cab street. people are angry out there. they really are. they...
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some people who are there are a very mean to other people. they have been mean to the other people. [applause] i just want to say that i do not know how many educated people are homeless, i know i should not be. but i know that there are some and we actually see, with our eyes, and we here with our ears. >> where did you teach in san francisco? >> wallenberg high school. >> thank you for your service. [applause] >> good afternoon. i am miguel calderon. i have worked for many years in the coalition of homelessness. what i am hearing every thursday morning, the homeless people express in front of us. well i want to say is that i hear -- what is your name? you are explaining the working of the shelter system in different states -- this is good to hear -- to know how the system is working. we have to focus right here in the city, where we see how we cover this -- this agency. that organization has to focus and understand very well about the homeless people. we see the homeless people and the line, waiting for the bed. at 3:00 in the morning. these are all humans. people with disabilitie
some people who are there are a very mean to other people. they have been mean to the other people. [applause] i just want to say that i do not know how many educated people are homeless, i know i should not be. but i know that there are some and we actually see, with our eyes, and we here with our ears. >> where did you teach in san francisco? >> wallenberg high school. >> thank you for your service. [applause] >> good afternoon. i am miguel calderon. i have worked for...
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near future you know a lot of different people will be able to claim. it was their country buescher and there's that to the arrest of coney you know there are now five thousand troops from the african union there are the obama advisers there's the ugandan army there's the colony twenty twelve campaign itself there is there's a lot. of me asking a question it's kind of important you don't so you still think this documentary has not been discredited in the in the in a broader scheme of things i mean we will be discredited media critics but in the larger scheme of things it hasn't been discredited well maybe jimmy deliverance and the campaign but we need to separate that from the situation on the ground and there's also a lot of things happening in northern uganda and across the border you know. things have been happening there over the last ten years so yes also in this is like welfare a lot will happen ok john go ahead jump in. certainly a lot of people are becoming aware of what's happened to the seven men who used to be hero i mean he was a hero of min
near future you know a lot of different people will be able to claim. it was their country buescher and there's that to the arrest of coney you know there are now five thousand troops from the african union there are the obama advisers there's the ugandan army there's the colony twenty twelve campaign itself there is there's a lot. of me asking a question it's kind of important you don't so you still think this documentary has not been discredited in the in the in a broader scheme of things i...
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address people. stay with people and they'll never let you down. the biggest problem that we have confronting the political situation in america today is money. because it is awesome the amount of money that is being required to run, even for the smallest of offices. if that continues, it's got a lot to do for so many people, for capable people from having an opportunity to be represented and to give the views that would be so vital and needed and necessary to continue the viability of america. >> i have to ask you this one question, what's a better job, being governor of the commonwealth or mayor of richmond? >> being governor of the commonwealth. because when you're the mayor, the people, you're closer to the people, but they are also closer to you. it is a totally different job. but if you enjoy people, if you love people, being mayor you are never a away from them and they let you know that. >> let me turn to bob lichter in fairfax, virginia. bob? >> thank you, steve. i have a couple related questions from ray foster. >> how are you doing, gove
address people. stay with people and they'll never let you down. the biggest problem that we have confronting the political situation in america today is money. because it is awesome the amount of money that is being required to run, even for the smallest of offices. if that continues, it's got a lot to do for so many people, for capable people from having an opportunity to be represented and to give the views that would be so vital and needed and necessary to continue the viability of america....
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this includes people who are here with legal status and people who are undocumented. these are the folks who will face immigration consequences. for drug offenses, the immigration consequences are particularly harsh and they are very unforgiving. a lawful permanent resident has been here for 20 years can get deported for the most minor drug conviction of the session, under the influence, possession of paraphernalia, those can result in deportation. so much is undocumented and have u.s. citizen family members. he does not have an opportunity to become legal and a drug conviction means that he will never be able to have legal status to be here with his family. the consequence of a drug offense is that someone will be put into a mandatory detention. that means no bail. white they are fighting their immigration change, that could be from a couple of months. this could be for an offense. even convictions for at the first time simple possessions and the this was part of the state rehabilitative programs. this would carry over under immigration law. even though someone concl
this includes people who are here with legal status and people who are undocumented. these are the folks who will face immigration consequences. for drug offenses, the immigration consequences are particularly harsh and they are very unforgiving. a lawful permanent resident has been here for 20 years can get deported for the most minor drug conviction of the session, under the influence, possession of paraphernalia, those can result in deportation. so much is undocumented and have u.s. citizen...
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black people are killing black foam, white people are killing white people.lack people aren't killing rich black people. it's people who are struggling. i feel like that white folk have tossed in this black on black notion to divert the true issue of racism in this country. i feel like this conversation is so hard for us to have. it is filled with such poison in this country that we have created, that it makes the conversation almost unbearable. to the point where if i can say you people are harder on your people than our people are harder on your people, it removes me from the equation. >> interesting. hang on, goldie. i want to bring in dean. dean, we were on the plane. we tweeted, a black man and muslim man walk onto a plane,....and it was a funny moment. but what do you make of this moment we were talking about it's still the same thing, people are murdered by people of their own race. >> they are, but it's being brought up by conservatives to distract us from the trayvon martin story. that should be the focus right now. the facts of the case, should zimm
black people are killing black foam, white people are killing white people.lack people aren't killing rich black people. it's people who are struggling. i feel like that white folk have tossed in this black on black notion to divert the true issue of racism in this country. i feel like this conversation is so hard for us to have. it is filled with such poison in this country that we have created, that it makes the conversation almost unbearable. to the point where if i can say you people are...
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they were hoping for 40 people. we had over 100 people come.there was a line outside the store, a line inside the store, people waiting to pay, three of us behind the counter quickly ringing people up and bagging things. >> on this particular saturday, andrew orchestrated the very first international cash mob day. with over 200 cash mobs happening around the united states and the world. in cleveland, the mob was happening atheç a small natura foods grocery store called nail's bnai nature's bin. >> it's a fun, exciting environment and a fun way to shop and support a local store. >> how much did you spend today? >> exactly, 142 and change. >> i just looked at the numbers from today from 2:00 when cash mob started, to 3:30, which is an hour and a half. we had over 300 people come through the store and they spent way more than $20. our total for that span of time an hour and a half was $9,000. >> at the same time, in bellport, new york, the cash mob was happening at two local downtown stores. somersault and bellport liquors. >> i bought local wine
they were hoping for 40 people. we had over 100 people come.there was a line outside the store, a line inside the store, people waiting to pay, three of us behind the counter quickly ringing people up and bagging things. >> on this particular saturday, andrew orchestrated the very first international cash mob day. with over 200 cash mobs happening around the united states and the world. in cleveland, the mob was happening atheç a small natura foods grocery store called nail's bnai...
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if all power comes from the people and the only legitimate break on the people's power is the people's power. how do you mobilize that? how do you keep a democratic people through processes of majority rule, the mother principle of republicanism or democracy? how do you keep them from abusing that authority because they will do it. madison famously talked about republican solutions to the problems of republican government. he was a mechanic, devising elaborate machinery to keep americans from destroying each other. a balance of power. jefferson said, you know, what you're really doing -- i am again channelling jefferson. what you're really doing, jimmy, is you are repackaging the old regime, mixed government. you're just an anglophile. this is not the solution. this is the problem. this is -- we don't have a house of lords. we come up with some fancy classical way of talking about the senate. we don't have a king. we have a president. and, of course, our president merely presides. that's the theory. let's be honest about this new world that we have brought into being. and let's make it
if all power comes from the people and the only legitimate break on the people's power is the people's power. how do you mobilize that? how do you keep a democratic people through processes of majority rule, the mother principle of republicanism or democracy? how do you keep them from abusing that authority because they will do it. madison famously talked about republican solutions to the problems of republican government. he was a mechanic, devising elaborate machinery to keep americans from...
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all you can do really is ask people how happy they feel generally on a scale of zero to ten and people generally say in reasonably wealthy western societies that there are seven or eight and this is been the case for the for many years so i think it's quite interesting to do these surveys from a policy point of view they have very little relevance and they're very little use ok so on we go we have two points of view here what do you thing where you fall in on that. well for years economists have been talked about and have dreamed about having a way of measuring utility being able to measure the success of an economy they have tended to use sort of measures i mean we fall back on things like g.d.p. because that's and it's easy to measure we have on our balance sheet because we can count things. in the beginning of the nineteenth century in. the twentieth century in the nineteenth century so they didn't believe that we could measure anything else now we've actually started seeing that we can do some measures of people how people feel at first it might seem like a strange thing to do migh
all you can do really is ask people how happy they feel generally on a scale of zero to ten and people generally say in reasonably wealthy western societies that there are seven or eight and this is been the case for the for many years so i think it's quite interesting to do these surveys from a policy point of view they have very little relevance and they're very little use ok so on we go we have two points of view here what do you thing where you fall in on that. well for years economists...
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, people who are stigmatized yet. you have a lot of potential for it this sort of abuse. i will say something really quickly. i went to san francisco, i have been here for about 20 years. i was unfamiliar with what ultimately became one of my favorite drugs, speed. no one told me that one could become speed psychotic. so, i had a lot of things happen to me. i ended up in the emergency room. . fast forward 10 years, thanks to peer groups like the speed project, things like that. i realized what was going on. i had a real help emergency, which is something that happened to me. something in my i was going on. i went, there is something in my eye. then, they could tell, they looked at me like it, ok. i sat there for hours and hours. i left, fine. there was something in the emergency room, i did not take it personally. sunday night, i was riding my bicycle. suddenly, i had a depth of field, everything was flat. so, what happened is that i went back there and, that was a problem. they looked at my eye, hey, there is no righ
, people who are stigmatized yet. you have a lot of potential for it this sort of abuse. i will say something really quickly. i went to san francisco, i have been here for about 20 years. i was unfamiliar with what ultimately became one of my favorite drugs, speed. no one told me that one could become speed psychotic. so, i had a lot of things happen to me. i ended up in the emergency room. . fast forward 10 years, thanks to peer groups like the speed project, things like that. i realized what...
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people were scared. screen years obeyed -- obeid all faa rules the unlocked cockpit doors was legal but they were minimum-wage in private profit seeking contractors people thought that was the rest. now we have the tsa. how was that working? [laughter] i did not understand the extent damage more do they spend? ten times as much and private counterparts. and allot to save your city once to opt out to that most of the world uses with private contractors competing, which is better and you can fire them, and you can add couple places have. san francisco and kansas city. people say the screeners are nicer. line moves more quickly. tsa undercover studies find they are much likely to catch contraband in san francisco. in its private contractor who half's to work hard to keep the job. they run contest the best screener can win $2,000. pad the bag the most quickly? to keep the airport's happy, -- shift the screeners around so the line keeps moving. the other airports want them but did tsa a ignores the request fo
people were scared. screen years obeyed -- obeid all faa rules the unlocked cockpit doors was legal but they were minimum-wage in private profit seeking contractors people thought that was the rest. now we have the tsa. how was that working? [laughter] i did not understand the extent damage more do they spend? ten times as much and private counterparts. and allot to save your city once to opt out to that most of the world uses with private contractors competing, which is better and you can fire...
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yeah i did and i think it is that that that that has affected some people not our many people before the financial crisis we're doing this but i think there are some people and it's and i've interviewed a couple of them and in videos with a few people. that particularly one woman who contacted me and she actually found a video for me that has now had over a million visits so really popular i think people really relate to her and she you know that used to live in two thousand five hundred square foot home and they downsized to three hundred twenty square feet and they have a son and he sleeps in a loft and you know loves it. and they actually a really happy that so it was a choice that is certainly made i mean they couldn't really afford to keep living in something so big but now they're they're really quite happy with with how they're living. so you get this documentary would you ever live in a tiny house having seen where we've well actually when i first moved to barcelona we lived with my husband i lived in what it was.
yeah i did and i think it is that that that that has affected some people not our many people before the financial crisis we're doing this but i think there are some people and it's and i've interviewed a couple of them and in videos with a few people. that particularly one woman who contacted me and she actually found a video for me that has now had over a million visits so really popular i think people really relate to her and she you know that used to live in two thousand five hundred square...
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people will come to the square. instead of 5000 people, you had 50,000 people. there is a power tool i.d.. it is a good question. without the people power, technology and new media is a sterile force and not as powerful. >> you mentioned people power. covered the fall of marcos and rise of a keynote -- aquino in the philippines. you have a vicious dictator and a pious, sincere, well-meaning is the original political leader. that was not true. she did not care about poor people. she probably had never met one even though 70% of the population lived under the poverty line. he had actually done some things that were useful and helpful while he pocketed a piece of the action. then i went to a of salvador where oliver stone and others romanticized the guerrilla movement. they were killing mayors in cold blood. there were guerrilla camps up in the mountains. women in fatigues would be serving coffee and grumbling that the guys were running the show. there is a black-and-white problem in the way we look at things. there is a polarization going on. you talk about having
people will come to the square. instead of 5000 people, you had 50,000 people. there is a power tool i.d.. it is a good question. without the people power, technology and new media is a sterile force and not as powerful. >> you mentioned people power. covered the fall of marcos and rise of a keynote -- aquino in the philippines. you have a vicious dictator and a pious, sincere, well-meaning is the original political leader. that was not true. she did not care about poor people. she...
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>> well, i think when you look at regular people and you start having regular people like small business owners like myself, worried about raising oil prices and the potential of raising taxes and health care costs and what we need to do to get out of the depression or recession, whatever you call it. start getting people jobs and small businesses owners are paralyzed with the fear of uncertainty right now. what is obama going to do and the the policies and when they're scared to deaths. >> jonas, there are positives out there, we're seeing the sass prices start to go come down and seeing still growth that is positives. there are positives in the economy. >> and year over year gas prices are cheaper now and i don't think it's going to your point, until enough time goes by. we're not getting down to 5% unemployment or homes adjusting for employment. and that was a bubble and got to get that out of your head, three it five years from you, it's not so bad now, i don't feel we're in a rehe session and right now it's recent enough it's going to feel bad even though that never happened and you
>> well, i think when you look at regular people and you start having regular people like small business owners like myself, worried about raising oil prices and the potential of raising taxes and health care costs and what we need to do to get out of the depression or recession, whatever you call it. start getting people jobs and small businesses owners are paralyzed with the fear of uncertainty right now. what is obama going to do and the the policies and when they're scared to deaths....
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it's people. people connecting with people. it's one thing to talk about something in the abstract and it's another thing to actually figure out how to do it in real time with all sorts of things happening at once. and it's tricky. so what i'm going to do -- first of all, i want to say by reference people ask me what recovery is about, and basically what i've decided now is it starts as a sprint and it ends as a marathon. only when you're sprinting you don't realize it's a marathon. and that's probably a good thing. so you get worn out too soon. but really the sprint part of it is really the emergency response and the immediate aftermath. i say a couple things about that and community engagement with the business community and then the marathon part is really the long-term recovery and i'll say about that and vision santa cruz. so in santa cruz what happened that cloud of yellow dust was actually about a million square feet of the downtown with a third of it collapsing, essentially, or near collapse and a third of it probably o
it's people. people connecting with people. it's one thing to talk about something in the abstract and it's another thing to actually figure out how to do it in real time with all sorts of things happening at once. and it's tricky. so what i'm going to do -- first of all, i want to say by reference people ask me what recovery is about, and basically what i've decided now is it starts as a sprint and it ends as a marathon. only when you're sprinting you don't realize it's a marathon. and that's...
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go down and talk to people i think they get a sense of how outraged people were in sanford and we talked to former police officers for example the president of the n.a.c. p. . in the county is a twenty four year veteran of the sheriff's department and he said it's been a good ol boys club with the police for for a number of years but these kinds of things are happening all over the country and trayvon is only one case and that think that's why you're seeing demonstrations sprouting up like today students in ohio were outraged simply because someone i think painted on the black student union or building at schools along with zimmerman that happened today so people know that this kind. the thing is is going on you know we have a case. in in peril in texas and you're talking about a family that's by themselves paralyzed in texas where three kids two of them are riding their go carts in the neighborhood a woman questions whether these three black kids belong in the neighborhood she takes her jeep wrangler drives across southbound traffic up over the curb want to a grassy area and runs into h
go down and talk to people i think they get a sense of how outraged people were in sanford and we talked to former police officers for example the president of the n.a.c. p. . in the county is a twenty four year veteran of the sheriff's department and he said it's been a good ol boys club with the police for for a number of years but these kinds of things are happening all over the country and trayvon is only one case and that think that's why you're seeing demonstrations sprouting up like...
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once people have lost their job, that's difficult for people to do. one of the issues, of course, with the nature of our social security disability program is if you lose your job, you have impairments and apply for benefits and get the benefits, you not only have a waiting period, but for your monthly social security benefits started, you have an additional 24 months beyond that before the medicare benefits start to come in. so these contribute towards a lack of insured status. many people have looked at possibilities to improve prospects for the cost of social security disability, but more importantly to improve prospects for those who come to have impairments to make it difficult to work. not only to try to find better ways to help people have greater work opportunity, but also to provide additional assistance to people even before starting to see disability benefits in terms of having access to health care that might be able to maintain them. >> so preventive care and adequate coverage for prescription drugs? >> it would have big effects in the af
once people have lost their job, that's difficult for people to do. one of the issues, of course, with the nature of our social security disability program is if you lose your job, you have impairments and apply for benefits and get the benefits, you not only have a waiting period, but for your monthly social security benefits started, you have an additional 24 months beyond that before the medicare benefits start to come in. so these contribute towards a lack of insured status. many people...
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some people say living buddha. nonsense. and also, the other side, some people say me demon. that also nonsense. i'm simply a human being. >> when i was very young, kids of my age, when i was 8 or 9 years old, they wanted to be an astronaut, or, you know, a scientist or something like that. today's children, many of them in all the surveys want to be celebrities. they don't care how they get there. they just want to be celebrities. many people think that is damaging to modern society, that that is the new aspiration for young people. >> what is that word -- >> celebrity. >> celebrity. to be famous. >> yes. >> i think -- and may i say so -- most case, sports or singers or some dancers, that part, that kind, one category that way, so -- other than that, i think really, and some scientists, analyze, finding some new things, so i prefer just not external. >> you like famous people who are famous because they have done something serious, scientific. >> yes. >> intelligent. rather than perhaps more transitory, evacuous. >> einstein, and some other -- really, if they found some new
some people say living buddha. nonsense. and also, the other side, some people say me demon. that also nonsense. i'm simply a human being. >> when i was very young, kids of my age, when i was 8 or 9 years old, they wanted to be an astronaut, or, you know, a scientist or something like that. today's children, many of them in all the surveys want to be celebrities. they don't care how they get there. they just want to be celebrities. many people think that is damaging to modern society,...
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these are people -- there are many people marching next to each other who do not agree on other issues. they do not just feel like they're all with their brothers and sisters. and yet they feel a common political mission on this issue. and that strikes me as still the possible forum for whether it leads to direct change of prush's policy, i would still say no. it's not likely. but it has obviously changed other people's policies. and not just our marches, but other marches as well. so i am inspiring. let me go to you. >> any thoughts about the recent marches on the world bank that aren't necessarily government but they're political and the police -- they police the action of the police towards the protesters and how that changes the image of washington? >> um, yeah, that is a -- that is one of the things that i would argue that partly because in washington i think particularly there has been this creation of a tradition of marching on washington that much more depends on the notion that there's a large, peaceful march that when people do plan these more disruptive charges, there is alm
these are people -- there are many people marching next to each other who do not agree on other issues. they do not just feel like they're all with their brothers and sisters. and yet they feel a common political mission on this issue. and that strikes me as still the possible forum for whether it leads to direct change of prush's policy, i would still say no. it's not likely. but it has obviously changed other people's policies. and not just our marches, but other marches as well. so i am...
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it is hard to find housing for people living on ssi or ga. and just on a personal note, working at the mission collaborative, i have seen people transition from living in shelters and the daily sro's to actually having subsidized housing where they have a place to live permanently, and it has made a tremendous impact on people's health as well as their quality of life, so i urge the supervisors and the mayor's office on housing to look for other ways to have permanent housing with a very specific emphasis on income levels and keeping it at the very low income level. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is bin shaker. i also work with the collaborative, and i am in district 9. since i am on fixed income like thousands of others of san franciscans, there is an extreme struggle, especially in the time of rising rents and disparity. my partner and i can only afford to live and an sro's, an icy definitively out of our range condominiums being built and not places for people like us. affordable housing is im
it is hard to find housing for people living on ssi or ga. and just on a personal note, working at the mission collaborative, i have seen people transition from living in shelters and the daily sro's to actually having subsidized housing where they have a place to live permanently, and it has made a tremendous impact on people's health as well as their quality of life, so i urge the supervisors and the mayor's office on housing to look for other ways to have permanent housing with a very...
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older people go to bed. younger people are up. these young comedians who host these shows attract a younger audience. the president, all that enthusiasm for young people was in 2008, and it's probably not there for him this year because the job picture for young people, particularly those just coming out of college, is extremely bleak. there was an a.p. survey done last week that ended up concluding that one in two college graduates now adays is either unemployed or underemployed. that is a difficult situation for him to run in as far as young people are concerned. i'm sure he will do what he can through outreach to young people and going on those shows to reach them. i'm not sure he can. >> bill: no, he'll try use them and that's why he's going on fallon. jimmy fallon, talented guy, he's on at 3:00 o'clock in the morning, he's on very, very late. president of the united states ordinarily wouldn't coo that. harry truman wouldn't do that. why am i going to go on at 1:00 o'clock in the morning? here is why. everything he says on fal
older people go to bed. younger people are up. these young comedians who host these shows attract a younger audience. the president, all that enthusiasm for young people was in 2008, and it's probably not there for him this year because the job picture for young people, particularly those just coming out of college, is extremely bleak. there was an a.p. survey done last week that ended up concluding that one in two college graduates now adays is either unemployed or underemployed. that is a...
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but you know, people have to find ways to do that anyway. to get these people taking care of. but it is mentality you sent and that is stoked by many in the political arena in order to increase their own power. they want people to be dependent. they want people to be the them so they can let them as their great savior and so that they can vote for them and keep them in power, exactly the wrong course of action to take. we need to hold up in front of people good examples. for instance, there is an organization known as the horatio alger society. they select 10 to 12 people each year and these are people who came from horrible, horrible background and have achieved at the highest levels in our society. those stories need to be out there. that is where horatio alger used to read about on the famous writer rags to riches stories. we need to help people understand that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. it is not the videos. and that is where you become the vick them when you start thinking that somebody else is in control of your destiny. and not si
but you know, people have to find ways to do that anyway. to get these people taking care of. but it is mentality you sent and that is stoked by many in the political arena in order to increase their own power. they want people to be dependent. they want people to be the them so they can let them as their great savior and so that they can vote for them and keep them in power, exactly the wrong course of action to take. we need to hold up in front of people good examples. for instance, there is...
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our own political currency is people. and people are ready to hit the streets. today is the beginning of a much larger set of mobilizations. they're going to take place all across the country. we're just getting started. >> that was george goehl then, and here he is now. one of the brains behind the 99% spring. george goehl has been a community organizer, a strategist and trainer for 20 years. he's executive director of national people's action. that's a network of grassroots organizations in 14 states using direct action to battle against economic and racial injustice. welcome, george. >> hey, thanks for having me. >> it's been three years since i saw you last. and congress has enacted the dodd-frank bill with some oversight of wall street. and the president has been sounding like a populist from time to time. are you satisfied with the progress? >> we're not. i mean, i would say that it's been hard for the president to tap into that populist bone in his body. i think some of us question whether it's there. it often feels like he's kind of trying to eat his wor
our own political currency is people. and people are ready to hit the streets. today is the beginning of a much larger set of mobilizations. they're going to take place all across the country. we're just getting started. >> that was george goehl then, and here he is now. one of the brains behind the 99% spring. george goehl has been a community organizer, a strategist and trainer for 20 years. he's executive director of national people's action. that's a network of grassroots...
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who were the good people. a with a sophisticated people. conservatives were been. you were greedy. you were prejudiced. my hole upbringing was part of this liberal culture. i was comfortable until i began saying maybe these government programs don't really help people. maybe what we are seeing here with these urban welfare programs not only are not helping people but destroying families. destroying communities. destroying the fabric of the culture. maybe these ideas are having an intended consequences. what happens is people go what happened to you? how did you become so mean? has my former liberal friends would say when did you sell out? we don't have the ability to change our minds and ask these questions? going directly to your question there's a real difference between people who evaluate a program based on whether it works and whether it is effective or how it makes you feel. lot of liberals support these programs because it shows how compassionate and caring they are. as they are the good people. they ca
who were the good people. a with a sophisticated people. conservatives were been. you were greedy. you were prejudiced. my hole upbringing was part of this liberal culture. i was comfortable until i began saying maybe these government programs don't really help people. maybe what we are seeing here with these urban welfare programs not only are not helping people but destroying families. destroying communities. destroying the fabric of the culture. maybe these ideas are having an intended...
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over time i realized that people -- some people simply do not like facebook. i would argue potentially for good reason but there are some people who have made a conscious decision not to utilize the social media platform. further, my customer, while sell ads for the web site, my actual customer our readers and readers are telling me from day one, when i first started the web site was, great web site, didn't know there were so many books been written by black writers, carry on. today the problem is there are so many writers, i don't know what to read. that is the biggest complaint from readers. sure, people know the celebrities and celebrities get the most attention. you know we are looking at all the children's books and you have to be a celebrity to write a children's park. you have to be a celebrity to get any type of promotion out of publishers. in our space, more so than any other, all of the negative action that one might associate with social media impact us more. so i wish i could quote what you said but in spirit what was said by the speaker was that i
over time i realized that people -- some people simply do not like facebook. i would argue potentially for good reason but there are some people who have made a conscious decision not to utilize the social media platform. further, my customer, while sell ads for the web site, my actual customer our readers and readers are telling me from day one, when i first started the web site was, great web site, didn't know there were so many books been written by black writers, carry on. today the problem...
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be nice to people. once they get over their suspicion of why you are being nice, they will be nice to you. and if you are a democrat, a way to make sure that you are nice to all republicans for a week. if you are a republican, i want you to make sure that you are nice to all democrats for a week. and i want you to get used to doing that. because we have to learn how to work together. we have much more in common than we have apart. we need to understand what our principles are. what are the values. what do we stand for? in this nation. we need not allow ourselves to be divided up by pundits who derive their power and their income by stirring up trouble among the people. we are smarter than that. we can do better than that. the k. is for knowledge. it makes you into a more evil person. it makes you a more knowledgeable person. what matters is what is up here. that is what solomon, the wisest man who ever lived said, knowledge, wisdom, and understanding -- with those, you get all the gold and rubies and si
be nice to people. once they get over their suspicion of why you are being nice, they will be nice to you. and if you are a democrat, a way to make sure that you are nice to all republicans for a week. if you are a republican, i want you to make sure that you are nice to all democrats for a week. and i want you to get used to doing that. because we have to learn how to work together. we have much more in common than we have apart. we need to understand what our principles are. what are the...
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i don't want you to discourage people but encourage people. >> i encourage people to strengthen their homes. that's what i want them to do. >> we're with that on mitigation too. i'd like to visit you. >> i didn't like the legislation. i thought it was too costly. didn't have enough protection. and you had to put this money aside. $10 billion would go like that. $10 billion is just chicken feed. >> actually, for homes that we insure, for the number of homes we insure we could handle another northridge and loma prieta. financial security and strength is not a problem. it's the problem that most people so far have not elected to purchase it. that's the work we have. >> you guys are rolling out a mitigation program now, right? >> we have a terrific mitigation program. getting ready to launch. we have $22 million to provide cash incentives for people to mitigate their homes. so we got a lot of things going on. thank you. >> before you start, one thing i wanted to mention, i have a former colleague, lori johnson, not to put you on the spot. lori has done a lot of research on cobay and also
i don't want you to discourage people but encourage people. >> i encourage people to strengthen their homes. that's what i want them to do. >> we're with that on mitigation too. i'd like to visit you. >> i didn't like the legislation. i thought it was too costly. didn't have enough protection. and you had to put this money aside. $10 billion would go like that. $10 billion is just chicken feed. >> actually, for homes that we insure, for the number of homes we insure we...
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when they say black people don't skydive, that's more about white people than black people. >> what do teree, what i mean is that black people going to the movies. when they see a white person going to the house, and all of a sudden -- black people don't go into the house. >> that's not narrow view of blackness, that's more a commentary about white people and their willingness to risk and all this other stuff, right? that's one thing. and there's a way in which blackness can also be a proxy for certain kinds of class conversations as well. so what we have to do is unpack these claims. i want to say this about blackness as a way of registering a certain set of values. a certain set of obligations that follow from my identification with the freedom struggle and that freedom struggle orients me to the world in a particular sort of way that i've chosen to embrace. when we look at the long-term trends of black america, 35% of our children are in poverty. we think about the rates of obesity. when we think about rates of incarceration. when we think about what's happening in education. when w
when they say black people don't skydive, that's more about white people than black people. >> what do teree, what i mean is that black people going to the movies. when they see a white person going to the house, and all of a sudden -- black people don't go into the house. >> that's not narrow view of blackness, that's more a commentary about white people and their willingness to risk and all this other stuff, right? that's one thing. and there's a way in which blackness can also be...
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but a lot of people can't. and i've been working my foundation that i set up a few years ago to funnel, you know, some tributaries of my own income to the arts. and funding. right now i made this agreement with capital one bank. i had this relationship with capital one bank. becoming a spokesperson for a bank at the time of the banking collapse. and at the -- at the genesis moment of the occupy wall street movement was not a goal of mine in my career. i want to assure you of that. however, capital one came to me along with a couple of other bankers and were talking about on camera promotional opportunities, which i decided to avail myself of for two reasons. one, i was on a television show every week, so i thought now is the time. you know, when i'm off tv, i'm going to be off tv for a while. but when i'm on tv every week and we went into syndication, it became clearer that audiences are probably plenty sick of me now so they can't get any sicker of me. maybe i'm wrong about that, by the way. they can't get any
but a lot of people can't. and i've been working my foundation that i set up a few years ago to funnel, you know, some tributaries of my own income to the arts. and funding. right now i made this agreement with capital one bank. i had this relationship with capital one bank. becoming a spokesperson for a bank at the time of the banking collapse. and at the -- at the genesis moment of the occupy wall street movement was not a goal of mine in my career. i want to assure you of that. however,...
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people need help out there. i just want to plead for the homeless and people that need mental health. thank you. [applause] >> good evening. my name is peter gulotta, i am a resident of district 6. i am also a city hall fellow, working for the city of san francisco for the next year. i'm also a board member of the harvey milk lgbt democratic club. i am also here tonight because one of the issues affecting my community and many communities in san francisco is a loss of federal funding for hiv and aids services. under the ryan white act. so i am here to request that the city meet the needs of the those affected by the loss of this funding. i am hoping the city will back fill that funding. we know the facts. the rates of the hiv aids transmission is increasing, and has increased since the 1980's. we know folks rely on this funding to live and survive and thrive. this directly affects so many people in my life and my community. so i am here on behalf of everyone to say that i hope the city will take action on this a
people need help out there. i just want to plead for the homeless and people that need mental health. thank you. [applause] >> good evening. my name is peter gulotta, i am a resident of district 6. i am also a city hall fellow, working for the city of san francisco for the next year. i'm also a board member of the harvey milk lgbt democratic club. i am also here tonight because one of the issues affecting my community and many communities in san francisco is a loss of federal funding for...
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poor people fight back. working people fight back. the middle class.should keep in mind in this book that we do not hate oligarchis or plutocrats. we hate plutocracy and oligarchy and injustice. that is what directs our hate and our righteous indignation. phil: the book also does not just complain. you do offer some wonderfully practical ideas about moving us off of this -- i do not know how you would say it, but i think we were doing really well for a while. nobody came up to any black person and said, boy, i am glad that is over, are you? nobody would say that, but a leader, i tell you, for a moment, if i can take a second, muhammad ali did my show. we had gloves. i am swinging. i tip my life in my hand, and he fell down. i knocked muhammad ali on the ground. [laughter] and, i mean, this man could sell tickets. i have never seen anything like it. i was afraid. then i would run. a woman in the front war, a white woman in the front war said, "why are you always throwing your blackness at us? " chicagoans. and he said, "i am not to run my blackness at y
poor people fight back. working people fight back. the middle class.should keep in mind in this book that we do not hate oligarchis or plutocrats. we hate plutocracy and oligarchy and injustice. that is what directs our hate and our righteous indignation. phil: the book also does not just complain. you do offer some wonderfully practical ideas about moving us off of this -- i do not know how you would say it, but i think we were doing really well for a while. nobody came up to any black person...
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white people kill white people. no one in the media ever says, what are you going to do about white on white crime? asian on asian crime? no. 2, we have to quit allowing people who do not live in our world to define our world for us. just look at the prisons. who is monopolizing most of the prisons? young, black men. do not say that folks are not doing anything about black on black crime. you have young black men dominating the presence in the united states. and finally, i wish to the cameras, the network shows, would come to the churches, community meetings. the more you put light on the situation, the more people get involved. and you are right, reverend sharpton. we have had so many things happen in this country but we barely have a reporter say that a meeting took place. >> you are so correct. let me _ something that melanie said. the american legislative exchange council and the national rifle association are responsible for these stand your ground lost. they are now up in 23 states. -- graound laws. they are r
white people kill white people. no one in the media ever says, what are you going to do about white on white crime? asian on asian crime? no. 2, we have to quit allowing people who do not live in our world to define our world for us. just look at the prisons. who is monopolizing most of the prisons? young, black men. do not say that folks are not doing anything about black on black crime. you have young black men dominating the presence in the united states. and finally, i wish to the cameras,...
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so a lot of people can see other people's pages. and it's turned out that even though when you delete or opt out of facebook, they keep the information even though you have taken you're page down, and surprisingly for 18 and 21-year-olds looking for jobs, sometimes thing -- i will just delete my facebook page. amazing through there are companies, one called social intelligence, that keeps the last seven years worth of public facebook pages and markets that information to employers. i don't know why there's particular glitch in yours but it. >> host: it is possible to go dark? >> guest: it is possible to at least have what is currently available about you not visible, even though the previous information will be kept by facebook. >> host: we have five minutes left with our guest. the book is this. i. i i know who you are and i saw what you did. lori anders well by on a panel session, and so we'll see her later on as part of a three-person panel. our next call is from lee in ashville, north carolina. >> my question is how do they cont
so a lot of people can see other people's pages. and it's turned out that even though when you delete or opt out of facebook, they keep the information even though you have taken you're page down, and surprisingly for 18 and 21-year-olds looking for jobs, sometimes thing -- i will just delete my facebook page. amazing through there are companies, one called social intelligence, that keeps the last seven years worth of public facebook pages and markets that information to employers. i don't know...
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people? thatay that the reality is the reason we have a collapsing economy is not because the teachers or immigrants. it is because of the war economy and the war spending and the war machine. general douglas macarthur said that preparation for war is as materially destructive as war itself, and general eisenhower compares war spending to crucifixion. you have to show the american people that we're spending trillions of dollars on war. not only is it destroying our economy, it is also not making us safer. if you look at the american economy compared them 2012, you cannot even compare in terms of how much we have declined economically and in terms of international prestige. tavis: paul, that argument has been made time and time again, and yet, there has not been a cry. you know this as you work in it every day. where is the peace cry? by and large, we have seen no where near the peace movement that we saw during the vietnam era. there was no human cry when the administration said they are not
people? thatay that the reality is the reason we have a collapsing economy is not because the teachers or immigrants. it is because of the war economy and the war spending and the war machine. general douglas macarthur said that preparation for war is as materially destructive as war itself, and general eisenhower compares war spending to crucifixion. you have to show the american people that we're spending trillions of dollars on war. not only is it destroying our economy, it is also not...
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priority to people who have money for the poor people get no preference. that both our hospital was made for gas victims but treatment is not given in time and people die painfully waiting for treatment. sometimes i feel like there is nothing in our control. there are so many memories and so much pain that come since the gas tragedy that surviving has become a leave in hell. before we had no hope that cibo would even survive we just left everything to god and came to this hospital. by them. slowly her condition has improved and we realize these injections are very powerful. a doctor told us the same thing about the injections and once this course is over another will begin and those are supposed to be even better slowly so. the doctor said she is almost conscious now. when we came here we were very sad and when we leave i just want us to be very happy here. but the put up a couple will pull all the political will but isn't it rather shaming for. so many years aka terrible tragedy. poisonous chemicals were still there. you know there's no truth in it there
priority to people who have money for the poor people get no preference. that both our hospital was made for gas victims but treatment is not given in time and people die painfully waiting for treatment. sometimes i feel like there is nothing in our control. there are so many memories and so much pain that come since the gas tragedy that surviving has become a leave in hell. before we had no hope that cibo would even survive we just left everything to god and came to this hospital. by them....
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with another 500 people and you end up with 1500 people seeing that instead of 1,000. which is nice. sometimes you send something with 1,000 people and they share with 2,000 and they share with four, 000 and they share with 8,000 and it takes off and grows exponentially. with the technology at buzz feed we measure in realtime how people interact with content on our site and see how much do people like the content and want to share it and then show things people are likely to share. >> announcer: told you a story about a friend of ours who is a vegan, and you said you tried it. this says something about you because you at that time bet on the high side of a cholesterol level-- can i tell this story? >> yeah, sure, go ahead. >> rose: you said i thought i'd try it. and you tried it for a month. for a month-- >> four months. >> rose: for four months you said i'll try it, right? >> yes. >> rose: you said i'll eat no meat, a little fish and that's it. mostly plant-based food. >> yup. no dairy. >> rose: no dairy at all. and you did that simply because you wanted to see if in
with another 500 people and you end up with 1500 people seeing that instead of 1,000. which is nice. sometimes you send something with 1,000 people and they share with 2,000 and they share with four, 000 and they share with 8,000 and it takes off and grows exponentially. with the technology at buzz feed we measure in realtime how people interact with content on our site and see how much do people like the content and want to share it and then show things people are likely to share. >>...
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and so bringing events like this around the country lets people know that people recover.eople recover. substances took me down some roads that i shouldn't have gone down. i spent 7 months in treatment, aftercare, morning care, every care, give me some care, where is the care? i'm probably the proudest recovering alcoholic in the world. i haven't had a drink or a drug for 27 years, 10 months, and a few days. (applause.) you get to build a new life- because a lot of times people who talk about recovery talk about they want things back. "i wanna get this back, and i wanna get that back." i think you get so many new things. because there is life after treatment, and a good life. so it's time for those that have a problem really to get into recovery. and ladies and gentlemen, i would like all of you to join with all of us. we are one in recovery. faces, voices, all of recovery. let's get a great big picture, and i want you to go back. i want you to talk to two people in recovery, and i want you to bring them with you next year. one more time, say it loud, say it proud, "i am i
and so bringing events like this around the country lets people know that people recover.eople recover. substances took me down some roads that i shouldn't have gone down. i spent 7 months in treatment, aftercare, morning care, every care, give me some care, where is the care? i'm probably the proudest recovering alcoholic in the world. i haven't had a drink or a drug for 27 years, 10 months, and a few days. (applause.) you get to build a new life- because a lot of times people who talk about...
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and older younger people, i want you to see these young people. this is why we are in the room today and white is so important we do whatever we can do individually, institutionally, so one more time, one more hand for our young people. [applause] you can be seated. so you're going to hear now from a few more leaders or committed to you, who have risen to the challenge videos are going to call on them now. first we're going to hear, on behalf of the entire board of supervisors because they're all committed to this issue, we're going to hear from president david chiu. then we will hear from our superintendent carlos garcia. then we will hear from the ceo of united way, my boss, ann wilson. with that, david chiu. [applause] >> good morning. i am so pleased to be here as one of these older young people. and i am really glad that eric recognized the youth who are here, because when i look out on to this room, and all of us were here on stage, we spend a lot of time in this room, this is possibly the most diverse room that i have seen today. we have yo
and older younger people, i want you to see these young people. this is why we are in the room today and white is so important we do whatever we can do individually, institutionally, so one more time, one more hand for our young people. [applause] you can be seated. so you're going to hear now from a few more leaders or committed to you, who have risen to the challenge videos are going to call on them now. first we're going to hear, on behalf of the entire board of supervisors because they're...
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i interviewed a lot of people that ordinary people could not interview. when i hosted 1998, i was able to interview him about deng xiaoping. and i don't know of anybody else that has interviewed him. one source of information, of course, is going to come out. that is a lot of stories of the meetings. and a lot of the rich details of the discussions and, i think, records may come out. give a much richer picture of the decision-making process. because deng did not keep notes. it's tough join a biographer of deng. but i think -- what i would like to see, you know, i may not be around to see in ten-twenty years. i hope they would make full use of records that give a richer picture of the actual decision-making process in consideration of what happened. i can sort of guess, but i couldn't nail down. >> thank you. >> you've spent gave us a very rich picture of the factors that contributed to the discussion. i know, you don't have a lot of time, aside from june th what were some of the setbacks or challenges that he faced during his long career? >> guest: well,
i interviewed a lot of people that ordinary people could not interview. when i hosted 1998, i was able to interview him about deng xiaoping. and i don't know of anybody else that has interviewed him. one source of information, of course, is going to come out. that is a lot of stories of the meetings. and a lot of the rich details of the discussions and, i think, records may come out. give a much richer picture of the decision-making process. because deng did not keep notes. it's tough join a...
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what it is people ask for. two, there's what it is that people want. and three, there's what it is that people need. so the difference between what it is people ask for, and what it is that people want is best illustrated with the iphone. so on the left is what phones used to look like before the iphone. on the right is what phones look like now. and the difference is, if you only had to go with what people were asking for, when this is what phones looked like. what people would have told you, is we want a bigger keyboard. right. and part of the jen yises of steve job he got what it is they're asking for but not what they want. what they want is no keyboard at all. so we've centralized agricultural into large corporations. what they have to do, they now have a fie douche area responsibility maximize the wealth of the shareholders. i think we heard about it before. part of that is producing the cheap and poplar calorie. they figure out what people want. pizza tastes better than broccoli. what they give us is this. this is an amazing image, right? always
what it is people ask for. two, there's what it is that people want. and three, there's what it is that people need. so the difference between what it is people ask for, and what it is that people want is best illustrated with the iphone. so on the left is what phones used to look like before the iphone. on the right is what phones look like now. and the difference is, if you only had to go with what people were asking for, when this is what phones looked like. what people would have told you,...